feel sorry for the people ripped of by roger and everyone's protecting himthere is my lost coins and now tax debt on lost coins, but meh compared to aboveNot just that paid shills of Roger's always framing questions to me but never answering anything or anyone.

Customers had enough, had enough of the collusion, lack of transparency, had enough of courts

All y'all may recall I've been looking to Puerto Rico as a means of reducing capital gains taxes owed (I'm 'Merkin). But I've just learned of another (legitimate - according to IRS) potential route out of the system that may be as interesting:

Anyone interested in forming a study group? Or is there some other subforum here in BCT that might be better for such a discussion?

interesting article. thanks.

so i may have the option of taking tax money that otherwise would be paid to the government and more or less wasted and instead pick my own areas and technologies to invest it in instead. and it helps the little guys. im in. although it sounds too good to be true to be honest. and its new and untested. never had a problem with new and untested things before, as long as i can figure risk/reward ratios fairly well.

Well, not quite. At least I don't think so. Bear in mind I just learned about it yesterday. But rather than being able to redirect your tax money, it is actually the money that you invest through this program is not taxed (for ten years, profits to be tax free, etc...).

But overall looks like a very attractive program. Help bootstrap a needy community of your choice, and get a very favorable tax treatment.

Carolina is known as "La Tierra de Gigantes" (land of giants), in honor of one of its inhabitants: Don Felipe Birriel, who was the tallest man in Puerto Rican history, with an unconfirmed height of 2.413 meters or seven feet eleven inches (7' 11").

Bring out the regulation and control to shut them the f#$k up Imagine if it was a group colluding to do this to someone who is protecting childrenthat would be disgusting would it notFuture proves past

Is it? Is this WEX above board? I'm not hip to all the goings-on. I know the vampire squid owns Poloniex now. Did WEX get got by fatcats? Or what exactly.

Well last July 2017, they got seized by the US Govt (they were operating as BTC-e), some of their bank accounts were seized and the websites, but I believe that they were able to keep a large majority of the crypto, based on their own self reporting. About a month and a half later, they reopened as WEX and did a Bitfinex style socializing of the loss (about 40%-ish), and they issued tokens that they said would be reimbursed.

In the ensuing year, they have not been able to regenerate their previous trade volume and it appears that a lot of folks are trying to withdraw their funds, which seems to snowball, including WEX restricting withdrawals which continues to exacerbate the lack of confidence problem and the run on the exchange. So accordingly confidence has been lost about whether WEX has enough money to cover all deposits, and surely they have been a whole hell-of-a lot less profitable after reopening because they have not been able to return to their former self (trade volume wise). There is likely some other continued legal wrangling behind the scenes too because they USA Govt does not give up in terms of attempting to prosecute folks that they can find associated with the exchange, and that could be continuing to affect their operations and their expenses.. and may even motivate them to do an exit scam if they cannot pay everyone or to cover their expenses.

A scamming scumbag.Roger emailed Bity threatening to remove them from their website (bitcoin.com) if they don't start offering Bcash.Bity response; no one uses Bcash in Switzerland...

Watch their tactics

Usually what their baseless accusations are, are exactly what they do them self, they so clever

....."A bot is not too likely to engage in seriously engaging communications, and yeah it seems that mymenancepaid shill is engaged in a kind of shit-stirring, that trolls do at opportune times to distract from any meaningful exchanges of thread-relevant information that we might be having."....

Roger emailed Bity threatening to remove them from their website (bitcoin.com) if they don't start offering Bcash.

Bity response; no one uses Bcash in Switzerland...

Gets a few hundred million and turns into an egomaniac. He may be a big fish in this pond but the dude is a guppy on the global game of thrones. He doesn't seem to have any idea just how small he is compared to people with, not just wealth, but wealth that comes as a byproduct of real power. If he did, he wouldn't act like such an arrogant asshole all the time. I wish he would just fall into the ocean or something so I would never have to see his smug face again.

*edit* I know it's stupid. I should say something more substantive. But the way he speaks and acts bugs me more than any other human being alive. That perfect mix of autism and narcissism is like a cheese grater on my senses.

A scamming scumbag.Roger emailed Bity threatening to remove them from their website (bitcoin.com) if they don't start offering Bcash.Bity response; no one uses Bcash in Switzerland...

Gets a few hundred million and turns into an egomaniac. He may be a big fish in this pond but the dude is a guppy on the global game of thrones. ~great post~ ..."and previously to your post, James Gunn is a worry - signed @mymenace"... /rantoff

Merit system as a percentage would be good, seems to be something with paid shills and merit as average to posts - deja vu

Fishfood, Vacuum, Riposte, Nonsensical etc etc etc

Apply every step below to every post after this statement was made - stunningly beautiful and accurate

Can't we all just get along? Or at least take it to IRC?<Donut[AFK]> HEY EURAKARTE<Donut[AFK]> INSULT<Eurakarte> RETORT<Donut[AFK]> COUNTER-RETORT<Eurakarte> QUESTIONING OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE<Donut[AFK]> SUGGESTION TO SHUT THE FUCK UP<Eurakarte> NOTATION THAT YOU CREATE A VACUUM<Donut[AFK]> RIPOSTE<Donut[AFK]> ADDON RIPOSTE<Eurakarte> COUNTER-RIPOSTE<Donut[AFK]> COUNTER-COUNTER RIPOSTE<Eurakarte> NONSENSICAL STATEMENT INVOLVING PLANKTON<Miles_Prower> RESPONSE TO RANDOM STATEMENT AND THREAT TO BAN OPPOSING SIDES<Eurakarte> WORDS OF PRAISE FOR FISHFOOD<Miles_Prower> ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTENCE OF TERMS

Is it? Is this WEX above board? I'm not hip to all the goings-on. I know the vampire squid owns Poloniex now. Did WEX get got by fatcats? Or what exactly.

Well last July 2017, they got seized by the US Govt (they were operating as BTC-e), some of their bank accounts were seized and the websites, but I believe that they were able to keep a large majority of the crypto, based on their own self reporting. About a month and a half later, they reopened as WEX and did a Bitfinex style socializing of the loss (about 40%-ish), and they issued tokens that they said would be reimbursed.

In the ensuing year, they have not been able to regenerate their previous trade volume and it appears that a lot of folks are trying to withdraw their funds, which seems to snowball, including WEX restricting withdrawals which continues to exacerbate the lack of confidence problem and the run on the exchange. So accordingly confidence has been lost about whether WEX has enough money to cover all deposits, and surely they have been a whole hell-of-a lot less profitable after reopening because they have not been able to return to their former self (trade volume wise). There is likely some other continued legal wrangling behind the scenes too because they USA Govt does not give up in terms of attempting to prosecute folks that they can find associated with the exchange, and that could be continuing to affect their operations and their expenses.. and may even motivate them to do an exit scam if they cannot pay everyone or to cover their expenses.

Good recap. Thanks, it's all coming back to me now. This is the same BTC-e owners then. Still on the shady side.

I kind of doubt that they are specifically any more shady than any other people, and they have shown a decent amount of restraint and morals based on their having had opportunities to exit scam, but did not (at least not yet).

Of course, BTC-e has been one of the oldest exchanges, and they have been accused of a lot of shady things including collaborating to allow stolen GOX coins to be dumped on their exchange, and also other kinds of money laundering accusations - but merely because the USA govt makes such accusations does not necessarily make them true.

It is true that from the beginning BTC-e was an exchange that allowed you to do almost no KYC and AML verifications, so they would let you open up and account and begin to exchange with a mere sign up that involved only an e-mail address and a password... so I doubt that the mere fact that they had been attempting to allow freedom in the use of the exchange and to attempt to stay out of the reach of governments would have been shady in and of itself - beyond governments and banks not liking it.

Accordingly, there has always been some mystery concerning exact ownership and management and who works with them, but I doubt that mere attempts at anonymity means that they are engaged in shady operations.

Of course, there are a lot of aspirations to create decentralized exchanges, and it seem that BTC-e operators have shared a lot of the cypherpunk type aspirations - and maybe even have been pursued because of their ideologies - yet now they have a real business/creativity problem, and that is to figure out how to inspire a sufficient amount of confidence in order to not continue to experience a run on their bank (exchange)

Roger emailed Bity threatening to remove them from their website (bitcoin.com) if they don't start offering Bcash.

Bity response; no one uses Bcash in Switzerland...

Gets a few hundred million and turns into an egomaniac. He may be a big fish in this pond but the dude is a guppy on the global game of thrones. He doesn't seem to have any idea just how small he is compared to people with, not just wealth, but wealth that comes as a byproduct of real power. If he did, he wouldn't act like such an arrogant asshole all the time. I wish he would just fall into the ocean or something so I would never have to see his smug face again.

*edit* I know it's stupid. I should say something more substantive. But the way he speaks and acts bugs me more than any other human being alive. That perfect mix of autism and narcissism is like a cheese grater on my senses.

/rantoff

The players are known, the cards have been dealt and he doubled down. So at this point he has no option but to play out his hand i.e. continue doing what he's doing. The crappy part is bcash's funding (life support?) comes from Ver's BTC reserves and Bitmain. Unfortunately both benefit when BTC goes up, so unless BTC crashes hard or trades sideways for a very long time, the funding to prop bcash will continue to pour in.